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A very similar design engraved by Morlon and minted in Paris for Uruguay's Centennial: [img]
Really like the airtites in the oak board. Where does that sit, just on a desk or something? Or does it hang on you wall?
Token used within the Milan 1906 International Expo: [img]
A nice Italian token I just picked up, with probably the best example of Art Nouveau styling I've seen on a coin. I think she fits your "liberty"...
Here's a few more French Mariannes: [img] [img] [img] [img] [img]
Depending on how accurate you want to be, your French 2f is not a Marianne, it's Ceres, the goddess of agriculture. It's a beautiful image either...
Coin collecting is a great hobby to have during retirement, but if you're asking about collecting for the purposes of funding your retirement...
That's one amazing coin, congrats. I just happened to be reading about it yesterday; odd coincidence to see your note.
Interestingly, the Foire de Paris appears to have been going on yearly since perhaps 1904. I don't know anything about it, but just googled it to...
French Essai coins include those designs created that were never used (sometimes by "concours"), so wouldn't that correspond to the english term...
Wikipedia has an article on the misspelled "piefort" without the "d".
Rats!!!
Drool.... just let me know when you're selling that :)
Wow, that engraving is seriously 3D. Is this medal as thick as it appears?
That one is new, not stuck on anything, but I think the idea was that if I were to sell marijuana, I should buy these to pay the appropriate...
GSA, I may have posted this before, but since your topic has veered a bit in this direction, I'll put up my modern (~1990's) marihuana tax stamp....
The coin is silver, to my understanding
That's an interesting coin for sure. Quite expensive, I presume.
Meanwhile I suspect you could create a search query that excluded items with the phrase "no silver" in them.
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